Continuing with our series of “Best of 2018″ lists curated by the entire Entropy community, we present some of our favorite selections as nominated by the diverse staff and team here at Entropy, as well as nominations from our readers.
This list brings together some of our favorite online articles & essays published in 2018.
(For last year’s list, click here.)
In no particular order…
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Sugar on the Gash by Divya Victor (The Margins / AAWW)
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Letter to a Stranger: To My Arctic Vardoger by Alexander Lumans (Off Assignment)
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I Won’t Be Marginalized by Online Harassment by Kelly Marie Tran (The New York Times)
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Narrative Forgetting by Hilary Plum (The Brooklyn Rail)
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Safe House by Shamala Gallagher (Territory)
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Leakers by Rachel Fedger (Avidly)
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Fully Loaded: Power And Sexual Violence by Johanna Fateman (Artforum)
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Passages: Aretha Franklin by Adrian Piper (Artforum)
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I Am a Big Black Man Who Will Never Own a Gun Because I Know I Would Use It by Kiese Laymon (Unruly Bodies / Medium)
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The Rules of the Asian Body in America by Matthew Salesses (Unruly Bodies / Medium)
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A Letter to My Daughter about Mecha, and Family by Peter Tieryas (Barnes & Noble)
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Fat Girl Cries Herself to Sleep At Night: An Illustrated Essay by Natalie Lima (Longreads)
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A Woman, Tree or Not by Terese Marie Mailhot (Longreads)
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Father of Disorder by Jessica Willbanks (Republished on Longreads)
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How to Write a Memoir While Grieving by Nicole Chung (Longreads)
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Weighing the Costs and Occasional Benefits of Ethnic Ambiguity by Aram Mrjoian (Longreads)
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Dear Baby Witch by Sara Finnerty (r.kv.r.y.)
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Motion & Resistance by Harold Abramowitz & Janice Lee (Berfrois)
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What Humanity Can Learn From Plants: On trees, moss, and feeling at a distance by Janice Lee (Off Beat / Medium)
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Women These Days by Amy Butcher (Brevity)
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The Mystery of Tucker Carlson by Lyz Lenz (Columbia Journalism Review)
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A Log Cabin Square by Sarah Minor (DIAGRAM)
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Tallgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer (Little Toller Books)
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The Great Chinese Art Heist by Alex Palmer (GQ)
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Georgia’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System by Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker)
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The Sordid Necessity of Living For Others by Justin Torres (The New Yorker)
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On Likability by Lacy M. Johnson (Tin House)
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I Love America. That’s Why I Have to Tell the Truth About It by Viet Thanh Nguyen (TIME)
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An Account of My Hut by Christina Nichol (n+1)
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Grief Network by Dilara O’Neil (n+1)
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On Saying: Finding the Language to Describe Chronic Pain by Leora Friedman (The Millions)
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Gun Range by Stephanie Lane Sutton (The Adroit Journal)
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Highway Rest by Aaron Gilbreath (Columbia Journal)
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Dead or Alive by Kim Stoll (Cartridge Lit)
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TIGHT by Kirin Khan (Nat.Brut)
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Terms and Conditions for Meeting My Korean Parents at Their Place for Dinner by Joseph Han (McSweeney’s)
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The Ethics of Consciousness Hunting by Mackenzie Graham (Nautilus)
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What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write? by Arundhati Roy (LitHub)
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What Makes A Tree A Tree? by Rachel Ehrenberg (Knowable Magazine)
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How Can We Expand The Way We Write About Our Identities? by Tajja Isen (Buzzfeed)
